Organizations are struggling to reduce and right-size their information foot-print, using data governance techniques like data cleansing and de-duplication. Why is this effort necessary? Briefly explain.

  • After reading Chapter 1 and Chapters 2 in your textbook, please provide a brief response to the following assessment question.
  • Q1: Organizations are struggling to reduce and right-size their information foot-print, using data governance techniques like data cleansing and de-duplication. Why is this effort necessary?  Briefly explain.
  • After reading Chapter 2 in your textbook, please provide a brief response to the following assessment question.
  • Q2: Information Governance, IT Governance, Data Governance: What’s the Difference? Briefly explain.

Explain the findings/outcomes of the study in the article. Include whether this will translate into practice with your own clients. If so, how? If not, why?

Provide an overview of the article you selected.

What population is under consideration?

What was the specific intervention that was used? Is this a new intervention or one that was already used?

What were the author’s claims?

Explain the findings/outcomes of the study in the article. Include whether this will translate into practice with your own clients. If so, how? If not, why?

Explain whether the limitations of the study might impact your ability to use the findings/outcomes presented in the article. Support your position with evidence-based literature.

Evaluate capital budgeting situations by calculating financial returns and drawing appropriate conclusions.

You have been selected as the consultant to develop a business plan for Durango Manufacturing Company, which is a start-up, medium-sized public manufacturing company. The CEO has a background in manufacturing and is well versed in supply chain management. However, the CEO has limited experience in financial management and creating value for the various stakeholder groups. Your business plan must include a five (5) year strategy to increase revenues by 10% and a recommendation for creating an organizational structure to comply with SOX mandates for strong corporate governance over the internal controls. Your business plan must also include prescriptions for creating an ethical environment. Your recommendation must be approved by the Board of Directors before the company can begin its operations.

Based on your knowledge of accounting and financial, prepare a ten to twelve (10-12) page report in which you:

  1. As the consultant, create an argument that you will present to the CEO that suggests accounting and financial management knowledge and skills will be essential to the company’s success and stability over the next five (5) years. Provide support for your argument.
  2. Suggest to the CEO how the company’s stakeholders (investors, lenders, and employees) will use financial statement information and ratio calculations to make key determinations related to the financial condition and operational efficiency of the company. Provide support for your rationale.
  3. Given the strategy to increase revenue during the five (5) year plan period, which will need to be achieved through expansion and capital expenditures, determine which capital budgeting ratio is appropriate for Durango to evaluate its proposals for capital expenditures, such as NPV, IRR, etc. Defend your position.
  4. In order for the company to improve its operational efficiency, recommend which production departments should use process, job order, and activity-based costing—all three (3) of which must be implemented within Durango. Defend your choice for each department.
  5. The CEO would like to consider outsourcing his manufacturing operations if labor can be supplied cheaper overseas than in the U.S. Create an argument either for or against outsourcing the manufacturing operation to a foreign country. Your argument should include key points that support your position. The key points should address economic and business management aspects related to outsourcing.
  6. Predict the economic and business environment over the next five (5) years, indicating at least two (2) ways it may impact Durango Manufacturing Company’s ability to achieve the desired 10% growth in revenue. Provide support for your prediction.
  7. Formulate a strategy to improve the opportunities for Durango to reach its revenue goals (i.e., increase revenue by 10% within five [5] years).
  8. Assess the potential for fraud within Durango based on the lack of IT controls, and determine at least two (2) ways Durango will structure its internal IT controls to ensure that such controls are effective in detecting fraudulent transactions.
  9. Use at least six (6) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze financial reports, prepare analysis, and draw conclusions based on the financial analysis
  • Calculate and interpret various financial and operating ratios used in business.
  • Apply activity-based costing and other managerial accounting concepts to various business situations.
  • Evaluate capital budgeting situations by calculating financial returns and drawing appropriate conclusions.
  • Evaluate internal controls within an organization and create a risk assessment.
  • Analyze ethical theories to evaluate a decision-making process to determine compliance with professional codes of ethics.
  • Evaluate the health of organizations to assess the level of risk in an audit engagement.
  • Evaluate financial data for potential fraud and prepare an audit approach for detecting fraud.
  • Assess the risk of financial misstatement in an IT-based environment.
  • Evaluate financial data for potential fraud and determine the business relationships contributing to the fraudulent reporting.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about accounting management using proper writing mechanics.

In one paragraph, please describe what Erickson’s theory of psychosocial development is, referencing each of the 8 stages.

Connect the developmental theory of Erick Erickson’s Psychosocial Stages to the narrative in Michelle Obama’s Becoming. By examining her narrative in Ch 5 & 6, the goal is to analyze where Erickson’s theories seem to hold true and where they may fall short.

Part 1*:

In one to two paragraphs, create your own developmental theory of change for Michelle Obama’s narrative of adolescence and young adulthood in Becoming. How is she growing, changing, and learning as a person?

As she describes going to her new schools, encountering new groups of people, social contexts, and expectations – how does she make sense of her new situations?

Please use the following as guiding questions:

·  How does she change in these new situations?

·  How does she stay the same in these new situations?

·  Does her understanding of structures of society change as she encounters new experiences?

Part 2:

A. In one paragraph, please describe what Erickson’s theory of psychosocial development is, referencing each of the 8 stages. How does Erickson use stages as a way to describe individual development over the course of a lifetime?

B. In theory, the narrative in Michelle Obama’s Becoming, Ch 5 & Ch 6, would correspond to Erickson’s stages of “Adolescence” and “Young Adulthood.” In a final paragraph or two, please answer the following:

·  In what ways does her narrative seem to hold true to Erickson’s stages?

·  In what ways does her narrative make you question the “truth” of the stages?

·  Please consider – are all of the stages “resolved” in the way that Erickson suggests?

Identify three types of app systems and their value for the individual.

“Apps” has become the latest buzzword. It used to refer to application software that ran on a computer. Now the name has been shortened and refers to small pieces of code that can add functionality to a mobile device—often a smartphone. Visit an Internet apps website such as Playstore. Identify three types of app systems and their value for the individual.

Analyze the changes in the concept of hero and saint in the emergence of Romanticism (St. Francis and Dante), the agony and ecstasy of Michelangelo, Enlightenment patterns of cultural mutation, and Kierkegaard’s portrayal of Abraham.

Analyze the changes in the concept of hero and saint in the emergence of Romanticism (St. Francis and Dante), the agony and ecstasy of Michelangelo, Enlightenment patterns of cultural mutation, and Kierkegaard’s portrayal of Abraham. How do these changes in philosophical thought show development over time?

Explain one step that you believe employers could take to assist employees in having a healthy work-life balance.

In analyzing the needs of the workforce, work-life balance is high on the list of issues facing both employers and employees. Balance between work and home lives is sought but rarely happens for long because of work-family conflict. This conflict is also linked with some other bad consequences such as stress; absenteeism; burnout; and dissatisfaction with job, family, and life—all of which can lead to excessive job turnover and the breakup of families. Explain one step that you believe employers could take to assist employees in having a healthy work-life balance.

Discuss the approach human resource management should take toward organizational social responsibility.

In the video, Alex Edmans asks “Why do businesses exist, to earn profit (shareholders) or to serve a purpose to society (customer, employee, and environment).” Address the following:

  • Explain what answer he came to and why.
  • Next, discuss the approach human resource management should take toward organizational social responsibility.
  • Finally, cite one real-life example of a company implementing social responsibility that is not mentioned in the video or the course textbook. Be sure to be factual and to fully support your answer.

Discuss how basic discretion steps can help in countermeasures?

A wiki is a collaborative web site that collects and organizes content, created and revised by its users. The most well-known example is Wikipedia. Wikis are a way to grow a knowledge base around a particular content area, be it best practices in a particular field or how to use a specific piece of hardware/software. A hallmark of Web 2.0 is that it improves as more people use it and this approach underlies wiki-based learning. It is based on the idea that within any enterprise, a great deal of knowledge exists among the members. Sharing this knowledge and information can raise the organization’s intelligence level, be it a university, an association, a corporation or club.

How basic discretion steps can help in countermeasures?